Drastic Change of Plans

So my absence can be explained by all of the decisions Ryan and I have made in the past week. And the trip to Greeneville I took over the weekend to go to the dentist and attend one of my middle school friend's baby shower. (Congrats on a second little boy, Linda! ^_^ Now you'll have two future heartbreakers on your hands.)

Scratch any plans I've ever detailed about Ryan and I's future now. Here's what's going to happen. Ryan is withdrawing from Pellissippi and shipping to basic on April 7 which will give us a bonus of a nice little sum of money for going early. When he ships, it will not be to the Reserves but to Active Duty. He and I will be getting married in July when he comes home. Then he will head off to the next three months or so of his training, tech school included, where he will find out where he will be stationed. Hopefully due to our getting married before he fills out the paperwork for assignment, we will be stationed together wherever he goes.

We will be living wherever the Marine Corp. deems necessary, and we will both continue going to school in the evenings and so forth to complete our degrees. I will not have to work at all with the steady income Ryan will be bringing in. We will finally be able to stop spinning our wheels and head in the direction we've been wanting to go for quite some time. We are both so excited and happy with where our lives are going now. We're getting married, becoming able to support ourselves, finishing school on our time without it taking up all our time, and giving ourselves the ability to start our family within a few years' time. Yay!